Re: student question

[Judah Cohen <jcohen...>]

That's actually the article that lured me to Harvard. . . 
(Note that it was issued alone in pamphlet form, so don't go looking in
collections of essays for it. . .)

Also check out Motti Regev.
I know of one article in English:  "The Field of Popular Music in Israel" in
Simon Frith, ed. *World Music, Politics and Social Change:  Papers from the
International Association of Popular Music* New York: Manchester University
Press, 1989:  143-155.

And while his (1985?) dissertation (in Sociology) is in Hebrew, it also
comes with a rather nicely rendered ten-page English precis.

Judah.

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>From: Francesco Spagnolo <yuval (at) powerlink(dot)it>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: student question
>Date: Thu, May 4, 2000, 7:30 PM
>

> Judy, Galeet:
>
> Actually, there's an article (30 pages: not a book, of course) by
> Edwin Seroussi in English.
> And it is a rather good one:
>
> Seroussi, Edwin.
> Popular music in Israel : the first fifty years
> Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library, 1996.
>
> Enjoy it!
>
> Francesco
>
>
>
>>To my knowledge, there is no such current book of this sort in English
>>(Seroussi's is in Hebrew).  I hear that Amy Horowitz (at the Smithsonian) will
>>soon be publishing her dissertation on Israeli Mediterranean Music from a few
>>years ago.  I am currently working on a master's thesis on Israeli Middle
>>Eastern genres in Israel.
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Galeet
>>
>
>
>>A student came in with a very good question: is there a book on the history
>>of Israeli folk/pop music in English?
>>
>>I've found chapters and references. Bits and pieces. I've also got a number
>>of books on Israeli composers doing classical music or influenced by
>>Israeli folk song, but who has written an actual history of the folk/pop
>>genre? Also, very few of the anthologies give dates of composition. Does
>>anyone know of a listing of titles of popular Israeli music with dates?
>>Some introductions give some dates on some songs in Tara publications, but
>>nothing consistent for every selection.
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